Paulor-stove



J. PEDDER.

' Heating Stove.

Patented Sept. 30, 1845.

UNIT STATES PATENT ormoa.

JAMES PEDDER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PARLOR-STOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 4,214, dated September 30, 1845.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES PEDDER, of the city and county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Smoke and Gas Consumer for Stoves on the Principle of Reverberation; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of said smoke consumer, and Fig. 2 a section of the same. Fig. 3 is a view of my kind of stove, to which I contemplate affixing said apparatus, and Fig. 4C a vertical section thereof.

The nature of my invention consists in constructing a flange 0, upon the upper edge of the hood or smoke muzzle or back plate A of a stove, &c., which shall incline downward over the fire at an angle of more or less, and of a suitable width for the purpose required, both of which vary somewhat with the amount of draft and the form of the structure to which my said improvement is attached.

The hood, muzzle or back plate A, may be of any consistent form, square, round, or oval, and of any size to suit the stove; but the aperture 6 above it for the escape of smoke and the fianch 0 must be of the precise admeasurement to suit the construction of the stove and chimney, and the de gree of draft afforded by it; the angle of the flanch being also determined by the same circumstances, as a feeble draft requires said fi'anch to be set at a more acute angle with the line of the hood than a strong draft.

The purpose of the above described improvement is to deflect or reverberate the smoke, &c., back on to the fire, so as to perfect-1y consume all the noxious gases, and diminish the consumption of coal or wood; it also has a tendency to prevent the burning out of the fire-pot and grate, as well as the vitrification of the coal, the effect being to keep up a high temperature of heat at the top of the fire, while the lower part is comparatively cool.

This hood it is to be understood should be so placed as to project from and below the escape fiue. that conducts the smoke and other products of combustion from the fire chamber to cause them to reverberate over the fire there to meet the atmospheric air which enters the open front, if a fire place, or the fissures around the door, &c., if a stove, so that the combustible gases may unite with the oxygen of the atmospheric air while at a sufiiciently high temperature to effect such union, which effect could not be attained if the reverberation were carried from the fire insteadof toward it.

I do not claim simply the employment of a reverberator in a stove or fire place as this has heretofore been done but for a different set forth.

JAMES PEDDER.

"Witnesses D. O. PRoUTY, J. J. GREENOUGH. 

